Zen Cart Support - Setting Up Products and Attributes

Why am I seeing images for other products on my product pages?

Problem:

On my product pages, I'm seeing images from other products showing under my product description. Why? How do I change this?

Cause:

The "additional images" feature is causing this.

Solution:

You have two options:

a) rename your images so they don't share a common filename. Right now since you have one product with "abc.jpg" as the name, and another ...

How do I set up "Music" products for audio-previews?

1. Create your Music Genres
2. Create your Media Types (these are the allowed file-extension types you will use for uploading files)
3. Create your Record Companies
4. Create your Recording Artists

5. Create your music products ... be sure to select the "Product-Music" product-type from the pulldown menu when creating the product.
While entering the product details, you can select the Record Artist, the Record Company, the Genre, etc.

6. Create your media collections using Media ...

Download delivery methods explained

For downloadable products, there are several ways of delivering downloadable content to your customers, depending on your hosting configuration.

You can find these options in Admin->Configuration->Attribute Settings:

Download by Redirect

Download by Redirect ... when set to True ... uses the Linux/unix "symlink" ...

Ok when i set a attribute to an item like a color that must be specified and I enable the Required button on the attribute it is letting customers add items to the cart without giving a required attribute. What could be causing this??

"Required" is only for "text" input fields. (Hence the description of "Text Required").

To force selection of an attribute, you need to:
a. add an attribute that ...

My products are being displayed with a different price then I set!? If I set someting at $2 it ends up listing at 2.22. I have set that prices should not show with tax, I haven't set any tax rates yet.

Chances are that you have changed your currency settings, and your "default" currency is not set to a value of 1.0.
Please visit Admin->Localization->Currencies and set your default currency to value ...

How do I turn off weight from my product descriptions

Firstly let's be clear about the difference between a product listing and product info. When you see a number of products listed together, that's a product listing. When you click on one of ...

How does the Product Notification system work?

To Enable/Disable the Product Notification System
Go to Admin->Configuration->Customer Details
Change the setting for "Customer Product Notification Status" on or off according to the inline help text.

Signing Up for Notifications
While browsing products, customers sign up for product notifications via the ...

Image Preparation - How-to

Original Article By: RYK

I've seen several posts where people obviously aren't quite sure about the best way to set up their images, so I thought I'd put this together, and if the team want to pin it/add it to FAQs/move it somewhere else then please do so. It is aimed at the real beginner (because they’re the ones who have trouble) so some of it may seem very simplistic – but remember, we all knew nothing once!

Before I go any further, we need a tiny bit of image theory.

If you are uploading photographic type images, the format should be .jpg; if you are using clip-art style pictures, the images should be in .gif or .png format.

• You cannot have a transparent background with a .jpg but you can with a .gif/.png.
• Never save a photograph as a .gif - not only do you lose a lot of quality, but due to the way data is stored as a .gif, the file size will be far larger than it ought to be!
• The file size ...